[CALUG] Looking for advice

[Jim Cottrell]

Awhile back, I got tired of different distro's dot files. What I do is 
make my home directory be a subdirectory. Thus, I use /home/jcottrell/r7 
for CentOS/RHEL 7 and /home/jcottrell/f29 be my Fedora home. Anything I 
want to share, I move up a level and replace it with a symlink.

Whether this is done by different password entries (less common as 
accounts move to Active Directory and similar) or by my shell profiles 
(figure out where I should be, cd there and reset HOME) is left to the 
reader's imagination.

JIM

P.S. I first encountered this problem with dissimilar distros: RHEL 4 
and Slackware back in the day.

On 3/6/19 11:19 PM, Howard Bampton wrote:
> 95% of the time you can share $HOME. I have (admittedly in the 
> UNIX(tm) world or mixing UNIX(tm) and Linux) seen issues with settings 
> for your windowing system being slightly incompatible and causing 
> interesting failure modes. If your windowing session crashes 
> immediately upon login on one OS but not the other, this could be the 
> problem. Figuring out which file(s) and possibly settings in a file 
> can be "fun".
>
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 7:52 PM Bryan Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org 
> <mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org>> wrote:
>
>     Is your current distro not working in some way?
>     Also, what desktop are you using currently?
>
>     I don't recommend changing distributions if there is nothing wrong.
>     At most, I'd install them side-by-side, multi-boot.
>
>     They can even use the same /home file system, with separate /boot,
>     root (/), etc...
>
>     - bjs
>
>     On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 10:46 AM Wesley Wright <wwwinsky at gmail.com
>     <mailto:wwwinsky at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     > Bryan:
>     > Thanks for the info. I am looking to switch from Fedora 28 to
>     Ubuntu 18.x later this year. I tested the live DVD on my system
>     and all my hardware (printer, video card, sound card) works. Not
>     sure if my Diamond ATI USB TV capture card will work.
>     > Wesley
>     >
>     > Sent from my iPhone
>     >
>     > On Mar 5, 2019, at 9:11 PM, Bryan Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org
>     <mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org>> wrote:
>     >
>     > This is awesome!  I'm a huge fan of 'cheap-works-out-best' results.
>     >
>     > Even that 4:3 (or 5:4?) 17" monitor isn't really much less
>     vertical size than those 16:9 (or 16:10?) 22" monitors. I assume
>     the former could be a 1280x1024, which doesn't make it far,
>     vertically, from the 1680x1050 or 1920x1080 that most 22" monitors
>     are.
>     >
>     > - bjs
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > On Tue, Mar 5, 2019, 13:13 Wes Westhaver <wes at westhaver.com
>     <mailto:wes at westhaver.com> wrote:
>     >>
>     >> Thanks to all who offered advice on my quest for a
>     multi-monitor Ubuntu workstation.
>     >>
>     >> I took a little gamble and bought a used Dell Optiplex 7010 and
>     two 22" Dell monitors. The Optiplex has a built-in video card that
>     has two DisplayPort ports and one VGA port. I figured that buying
>     a very common Dell PC would mean that it's video card would
>     probably be supported by Ubuntu, and if not I could buy an
>     appropriate video card.
>     >>
>     >> Once I had the monitors connected with the DisplayPort cables
>     and Ubuntu loaded, I was pleasantly surprised that both monitors
>     came to life. No muss, no fuss! Then I set about finding Linux
>     equivalents for all of my Windows software. It took a while but
>     I'm very happy to say I now have a nicely equipped Ubuntu
>     workstation. Bye bye Windows.
>     >>
>     >> After a while I got to wondering if the unused VGA port might
>     support a third monitor. So I hooked up one of my old 17" Dell
>     monitors and to my delight it came to life too! So now I have a
>     ton of screen real estate to work with.
>     >>
>     >> Here's a shot of my system as it stands right now:
>     >>
>     >>
>     http://hawking.stealing-fire.com/5FBA1BFE-1109-4E46-B6DB-056595FFC889.JPG
>     >>
>     >> It turns out that multi-monitor support was a not an issue at
>     all with Ubuntu.
>     >>
>     >> Thanks again,
>     >> -Wes
>     >>
>     >>
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